A score of cars were reported trapped in a foot of snow in Laurel Canyon, with several children among the occupants…a half inch of snow on cars parked by the Long Beach City Hall….Five hundred cars were stalled in six inches of snow at Beaumont….Highway 80 between Indio and San Diego was open only to chain-equipped cars.

The Times’ switchboard received numerous calls from residents in all parts of the city reporting what they described as winter scenes “just like back east.”